1802 : At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
1862 : Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
1886 : The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
1961 : Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at Skorping in Denmark .